Sir Adrian Boult – The Decca Legacy, Volume 2 - Baroque & Sacred Music

Jennifer Vyvyan (soprano), Norma Procter (contralto), George Maran, Owen Brannigan (bass), Dame Joan Sutherland (soprano), Grace Bumbry (mezzo-soprano), Kenneth McKellar (tenor), David Ward (bass), Peter Pears (tenor), David Galliver, St. Anthony Singers, Philomusica of London, Royal Opera House Covent...

Release Date: 7th Oct 2022
Catalogue No: ELQ4842302
Label: Eloquence
Series: Sir Adrian Boult – The Decca Legacy

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Handel: Messiah

Jennifer Vyvyan (soprano), Norma Procter (contralto), George Maran, Owen Brannigan (bass)
London Philharmonic Orchestra, London Philharmonic Choir

Handel: Messiah

Dame Joan Sutherland (soprano), Grace Bumbry (mezzo-soprano), Kenneth McKellar (tenor), David Ward (bass)
London Philharmonic Orchestra, London Philharmonic Choir

Handel: Acis and Galatea

Dame Joan Sutherland (soprano), Peter Pears (tenor), Owen Brannigan (bass), David Galliver, St. Anthony Singers, Philomusica of London
Sir Adrian Boult

Handel: Ombra mai fu (from Serse)

Kenneth McKellar (tenor), Royal Opera House Covent Garden (opera company), Sir Adrian Boult

Handel: Love in her eyes sits playing (from Acis and Galatea)

Kenneth McKellar (tenor), Royal Opera House Covent Garden (opera company), Sir Adrian Boult

Handel: Silent Worship (based on an aria from Tolomeo)

Kenneth McKellar (tenor), Royal Opera House Covent Garden (opera company), Sir Adrian Boult

Handel: Jephtha: Waft her, angels, through the skies

Kenneth McKellar (tenor), Royal Opera House Covent Garden (opera company), Sir Adrian Boult

Handel: Messiah: Comfort ye my people and Ev'ry valley shall be exalted

Kenneth McKellar (tenor), Royal Opera House Covent Garden (opera company), Sir Adrian Boult

Handel: Where'er you walk (from Semele)

Kenneth McKellar (tenor), Royal Opera House Covent Garden (opera company), Sir Adrian Boult

Handel: Judas Maccabaeus: Thanks to my brethren…How vain is man

Kenneth McKellar (tenor), Royal Opera House Covent Garden (opera company), Sir Adrian Boult

Handel: Judas Maccabaeus: Sound an alarm!

Kenneth McKellar (tenor), Royal Opera House Covent Garden (opera company), Sir Adrian Boult

Bach, J S: Sheep May Safely Graze, from Cantata BWV208

Kenneth McKellar, Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Sir Adrian Boult

Bach, J S: Orchestral Suite No. 3 in D major, BWV1068: Air ('Air on a G String')

Sir Adrian Boult

Clarke, Jeremiah: Trumpet Voluntary 'Prince of Denmark's March'

Sir Adrian Boult

Britten: God Save the Queen (arrangement)

Sir Adrian Boult

Bach, J S: Mass in B minor, BWV232: Qui sedes ad dexteram Patris

1950 mono & 1960 stereo remake
Kathleen Ferrier (contralto), London Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Adrian Boult

Bach, J S: St Matthew Passion, BWV244: Erbarme dich

1950 mono & 1960 stereo remake
Kathleen Ferrier (contralto), London Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Adrian Boult

Bach, J S: St John Passion, BWV245: Es ist vollbracht

1950 mono & 1960 stereo remake
Kathleen Ferrier (contralto), London Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Adrian Boult

Bach, J S: Mass in B Minor, BWV 232: Agnus Dei

1950 mono & 1960 stereo remake
Kathleen Ferrier (contralto), London Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Adrian Boult

Handel: Samson: Return, O God of hosts

1950 mono & 1960 stereo remake
Kathleen Ferrier (contralto), London Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Adrian Boult

Handel: Messiah: O thou that tellest good tidings to Zion

1950 mono & 1960 stereo remake
Kathleen Ferrier (contralto), London Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Adrian Boult

Handel: Judas Maccabaeus: Father of Heaven

1950 mono & 1960 stereo remake
Kathleen Ferrier (contralto), London Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Adrian Boult

Handel: Messiah: He was despised

1950 mono & 1960 stereo remake
Kathleen Ferrier (contralto), London Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Adrian Boult

Bach, J S: Sheep May Safely Graze, from Cantata BWV208

Kirsten Flagstad (soprano), London Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Adrian Boult

Bach, J S: St Matthew Passion, BWV244: Break in Grief

Kirsten Flagstad (soprano), London Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Adrian Boult

Bach, J S: Jesu, bleibet meine Freude (from Cantata BWV147 'Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben')

Kirsten Flagstad (soprano), London Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Adrian Boult

Bach, J S: Bist du bei mir, BWV508

Kirsten Flagstad (soprano), London Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Adrian Boult

Handel: Sommi Dei! (Radamisto)

Kirsten Flagstad (soprano), London Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Adrian Boult

Handel: O, Sleep Why Dost Thou Leave Me? (from Semele)

Kirsten Flagstad (soprano), London Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Adrian Boult

Handel: He shall feed His flock (from Messiah)

Kirsten Flagstad (soprano), London Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Adrian Boult

Handel: Messiah: I know that my Redeemer liveth

Kirsten Flagstad (soprano), London Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Adrian Boult

Handel: Praise ye the Lord

Kirsten Flagstad (soprano), London Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Adrian Boult

Mendelssohn: Hear My Prayer

Kirsten Flagstad (soprano), London Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Adrian Boult

Mendelssohn: Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets, from Paulus, Op. 36

Kirsten Flagstad (soprano), London Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Adrian Boult

Gruber, F: Silent Night

Kirsten Flagstad (soprano), London Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Adrian Boult

Gounod: Repentir (O Divine Redeemer)

Kirsten Flagstad (soprano), London Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Adrian Boult

Parry: Jerusalem

Kirsten Flagstad (soprano), London Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Adrian Boult

Bortnyansky: Jubilate

Kirsten Flagstad (soprano), London Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Adrian Boult

Wade, J F: O come, all ye faithful

Kirsten Flagstad (soprano), London Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Adrian Boult

Monk, W H: Abide with me

Kirsten Flagstad (soprano), London Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Adrian Boult

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The second volume of Sir Adrian Boult’s Decca legacy brings together the conductor’s Messiah recordings of 1954 and 1960, plus Baroque and sacred music recitals from Kenneth McKellar, Kirsten Flagstad and Kathleen Ferrier. LIMITED EDITION. While hardly a ‘period-instrument’ pioneer, Sir Adrian Boult had a much surer sense of authentic Handelian style than most of his contemporaries. Editions and performances of Handel’s masterpiece were still often cut and loaded with Romantic trappings in 1935 when Julian Herbage prepared the most complete version of the score yet made, with Handel’s original instrumentation. Boult began performing this version in 1942 and it was the obvious choice for a new, refreshing perspective on the piece when he came to record it for Decca in 1954. Listeners and critics alike were struck by the energy of Boult’s direction, the purity and simplicity of the solo singing and the vivid Decca engineering. These qualities also distinguished the stereo remake, made with similarly slimmed-down forces and featuring Dame Joan Sutherland on the top line. She also contributed to the success of Boult’s Acis and Galatea from 1959, and the box is completed with a series of glorious vocal recitals, from the tenor Kenneth McKellar, the soprano Kirsten Flagstad and the contralto Kathleen Ferrier, all accompanied by Boult in Baroque repertoire with the sensitivity to line that made him so underrated and underused as an opera conductor. Ferrier recorded this selection of Bach and Handel arias a year before her death in 1952, but eight years later Boult and the LPO returned to the studios to produce a stereo accompaniment for the album, which the Decca producer James Walker mixed with Ferrier’s part from 1952: an early and remarkably successful example of the technology later used to ‘update’ classic recordings of Caruso and Callas.

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London Philharmonic Orchestra, London Philharmonic Choir, Sir Adrian Boult

Sir Adrian Boult – The Decca Legacy, Volume 2 - Baroque & Sacred Music

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